Have you actually read the article? It's been actually written, among the other things, because the author's wife has been trying to solve one of the problems for her whole life.
replyBut if you think they got them illegitimately, then how did they get them? And why are mathematicians reacting to this as a sudden explosion of new results that have resisted sustained effort? Where is the sudden productivity rise coming from?
replyI'd say it comes from the same mathematicians that were strongly encouraged to use the machine to solve their problems for the last 2 years or so.
replyThere's clear benefit in a babelfish that can coordinate disparate efforts, the only problem with the current iteration is giving credit to said efforts.
Google went quite far down the road to hell, but stopped short of taking credit for websites' content since the company understood that poisoning the well only goes so far. At this point, one can safely conclude that _Chat_GPT was an intentional attempt to squeeze out more data once they mined the internet dry.